Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I think he is only 110% correct. All that all these "rights" are doing is ensuring that we live in a dangerous society. If there is a possiblility for someone to make a wrong/harmful choice, someone always will make that choice, even when they don't have that right. When you are thinking about allowing someone to do something, you should always consider the worst possible outcome, and assume that's the one that will happen.
Also, I see people here criticizing Coren because of his right-leaning views. What I've never understood though, is how someone will be criticized because of wanting to set limitations on what people have the right to do in social situations, but have no hesitation on placing limits on people's economic freedoms (as many in the left seem to want to do, through environmental regulations or higher/progressive taxes). To me it seems blatant hypocricy, but maybe someone can explain the doublethink for me.
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I agree 100% with what you've stated. I too do not understand any longer where the role of responsibility comes into play with one's "rights".
I personally have always view my "rights' as being trumped by my "responsibilty" to the rest of the community, even when those rights are in direct conflict with the responsibility, i.e. freedom to write and purchase literature on production of bombs. Yes, I read them when I was younger at survival bookstores, but even then it was more of a curiousity than a desire to act upon.
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